MS in Data Analytics
Discover the Benefits
With a master of science in data analytics degree, this STEM field prepares you to pursue opportunities to excel in the growing technology sector. You’ll be able to decipher data and turn it into the meaningful business intelligence organizations rely on to reduce costs, design new products, improve efficiencies, and maintain a competitive edge.
Program Details
Start Dates
Offered intakes January, March, May, July, August, and October
Degree Length
14 Months
Key Offerings:
Offered in San Diego
Work while you Study with Day 1 CPT
STEM OPT
Honors Program
Why Choose the MS in Data Analytics
From Class to Corporate
The MSDA on-campus program gives you the chance to use your education in an existing organization within your chosen industry as a working professional, building your skills and experience in business through internships and other opportunities.
Flexible Schedules
This MSDA program was created to provide flexibility for working professionals, with the option to attend weekly, on-campus meetings in the evenings, or the option to complete the master’s degree program online.
Honors Program
In the Honors Program you’ll have the opportunity to participate in a research project for authorship and publication in a peer reviewed outlet through the school’s technology and quantitative analytics programs.
Healthcare Analytics
This concentration targets the expertise required in current healthcare analytics environments and provides a clear understanding of practical healthcare analytics decision-making. Students will be enabled to learn techniques and skills needed to work with diverse data sets, a range of analytics platforms and reporting tools to improve health care through the use of innovative and essential techniques that enable the delivery of efficient and quality healthcare analytics. Students will learn to select, prepare, analyze, interpret, evaluate, and present health data related to health system performance and effectiveness.
Informatics
Within the informatics concentration, students will focus on enterprise level information management tactics, techniques, and modeling methods for extracting, transforming, and loading data into essential reports and visualizations utilized for evaluation, synthesis, data analysis, and interpretation of business operations results. Students will learn to establish optimal data-driven recommendations and prescriptions from historic, current, and future data that align with stakeholder departmental end-state objectives, conversions, and goals.
Frequently Asked Questions
When does the Master's Program begin
The degree is offered as an eight-week term program and is open for enrollment during those enrollment periods. You can find a copy of our eight-week term academic calendar.
How long does it take to complete the MSDA
The degree is a 33-credit program and takes a minimum of 14 months to complete across seven terms.
What kind of jobs can I expect to get with a Masters in STEM?
With an MS in data analytics California, you may be able to build a career in fields such as data scientist, management analyst, consultant, project manager, logistician, data architect, big data engineer, data mining engineer, qualitative analyst, and modeler.